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		<p><a href="http://www.sipri.org/contents/armstrad/output_types_TIV.html">About the numbers</a> | <a href="/about">About</a> | <a href="mailto:jeff@vestaldesign.com">Contact</a></p>
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	<h2>About</h2>	
	<p>ARMSFLOW is a data visualization which displays arms transactions globally between 1950 and 2006. It was created by Jeffrey Warren of <a href="http://www.vestaldesign.com">Vestal Design</a> with data from the <a href="http://armstrade.sipri.org/">Stockholm International Peace Research Institute</a>.</p>
	<p>If you have questions, suggestions, bugs to report, or would like to discuss other large data sets to visualize, please <a href="mailto:jeff@vestaldesign.com">send an email</a>.</p>
	
	<p>ARMSFLOW includes <b>14,619</b> arms transactions (each is a sum of 1 year's exports) and <b>228</b> government entities.</p>
	
	<p>If you'd like to support ARMSFLOW by contributing to server costs, please <a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="$('donate').toggle();">CLICK HERE</a>.</p>
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		<p>Built with <a href="http://processing.org" title="Processing.org">Processing</a> | Information from the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, URL &lt;http://armstrade.sipri.org/&gt;</p>
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